Hi, I have an applet which is suppose to display data from a MySQL database to the web browser. This applet works fine with appletviewer but when I run it in a browser it gives an error; "Java.Sql.SQLException: cannot connect to mysql server on localhost:3306. Is there a mysql server running.............." I use the following class and connection string: String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost/dbname"; Class.forName("org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver").newInstance(); I load the MySQL server by C:\mysql\bin\mysqld. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you Abjin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]